Source Code

According to court documents, portions of the software code that runs Twitter were stolen online, posing the biggest challenge for the social networking platform since Elon Musk’s turbulent $44 billion acquisition of the business late the year before.

According to the documents, on March 24, Twitter served a lawsuit on the website GitHub after discovering that a user going by the name “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” had uploaded unauthorized portions of Twitter’s source code there.

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According to Twitter’s legal representative, the aim of the lawsuit is to locate the person who distributed the code. The paperwork was received by The U.S. District Court, Northern District, California.

The firm told CNBC that GitHub responded to Twitter’s request & erased the code the following day. As per a corporate representative, in the spirit of openness, the business discloses all DMCA takedowns, which happen when something is taken down from a site at the demand of a copyright owner.

Comment requests from Twitter did not right away receive a response.

Musk has already asserted that on March 31 Twitter will make the code used to suggest tweets publicly available. He claimed that he anticipates that people would discover silly problems and that initially disclosing the source code will be very embarrassing.

“Our “algorithm” is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things, but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found! We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. That’ll also be open source. Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality. Most importantly, we hope to earn your trust.” He said in a tweet.

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“GitHub does not generally comment on decisions to remove content. However, in the interest of transparency, we share every DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] takedown request publicly,” a GitHub spokesperson told the BBC.

Source: bbc.com

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Elon Musk, a billionaire who purchased Twitter last October for $44 billion and afterward took the firm private, faces new difficulties as a result of the leak. Ever since it has descended into disarray as a result of widespread layoffs and the exodus of advertising.

As per documents disclosed in a congressional report, the Federal Trade Commission is looking into Musk’s mass firings at Twitter and attempting to access his private communications as a part of its ongoing investigation into the social networking firm’s privacy as well as cybersecurity practices.